Kimberley Chambers

The No.1 Sunday Times bestsellerIf you don't face your enemies - they'll stab you in the back. One of them has a gun to his head. Who will pull the trigger? When king of the underworld Vinny Butler goes into business with respected villain Eddie Mitchell, it's a match made in East End legend. Friends and family are treated like gold, enemies like rats - it's the life. Then mysterious packages arrive, dead creatures and threats. Someone is out for...

With family like this, who needs enemies... There are some families that welcome newcomers with open arms, then there are the Butlers. An East End family no good girl wants to marry into... Jo fell for Vinny Butler's good looks, but she's stood at one graveside too many and now she's buried her heart as well. Michael Butler was always the nice one, until he started running the family business. Nancy is desperate to leave, and though she would never...

The heir to Martina Cole's crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery. It's 1983 and Stephanie Crouch's life is dull. She is desperate to escape the run-down, pokey council house she shares with her overbearing family, but at fourteen years old she has nowhere to go. When Stephanie meets East End wide-boy Barry, his cockney charm and quick tongue soon have her head over heels in love. Finally Stephanie feels like her dreary...

The heir to Martina Cole's crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery. The Butlers are the kings of the East End. Vinny and Roy Butler are the apple of their mum's eye and although Queenie knows they can play dirty, when it comes to family they look after business and make her proud. Nothing and no one can bring the Butler's down. But Vinny seems to have crossed the wrong person and his cards are marked. And with the brothers...

For young Queenie, life in the backstreets of Whitechapel was a lesson in survival - Hitler's bombs hit those with nothing the hardest. When danger strikes close to home, Queenie finds an ally in Mrs. O'Leary, whose two sons are the kingpins of the East End. But while the O'Leary's are the light in Queenie's life, fate has a different path in store. Now married to the useless Albie Butler, Queenie is raising her children to fight their own battles....

Family. They're supposed to watch your back. Not stab you in it When the enemy is one of your own, the payback is twice as hard. The Butler brothers are the Kings of the East End, and their motto is 'what goes around, comes around'. In their world, family counts; so when the truth about Vinny's cousin's death comes to light, it rocks the Butlers to the core. One by one, Vinny's friends and family are turning against him... Then, the unimaginable...